Vulpin is FORTIFYING! He gains 1 action from the new page!
Vulpin put up the finishing touch to his base. Writing in orange blood he spelled out the following words on a large sign on a plank of wood, "NO GIRLS ALLOWED". It was perfect.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] Defenders on Standby: - Result of Action: [1,1] Hemisect Crypts base fortified to 4 + 1 = 5 durability!
Well that hadn't gone how she'd liked. Or maybe it would have if Forera hadn't gotten in Vulpin's face. But she did have some good points! He did, too. Really, Luxara realized with a sigh, she should have gotten between them while she could. Now the team was separated.
She didn't like feeling like she screwed up, or the atmosphere of friction, OR something for others to call dibs on. So, while debating whether to stay with For or go after Poncho Kid, Luxara thought... Wasn't she her own free person? Time to take a third option!
"Uhhhh-uhh I think things are looking good, For. Go team! I'm gonna go check out some new places quick. I'll be on the radio if you need me!" With a salute, the little Glasgow smiler banked out.
She took a stroll past the library, not realizing that was there, however, and ended up in a small area full of hives. More importantly, there was a base already! Some group was already here! Noting that no one was going out of their way to shoo her off, Luxara moved on. Maybe another royalist group had set up shop nearby! How encouraging. Oh, right! Her radio. Luxara clicked it on. "There's someone's base up here if anyone wants to check it out. I think it might be friendly, too! Wouldn't that be great? Okay. Moving out."
After that, Luxara swept past the arena again, going towards the museum. She stopped suddenly when she realized the great open space between the showground and Horsebuilding. No bases or anything! Eureka! They could have three bases in a row! She immediately turned on her heel and ran back to Forera.
"HEY, there's- Oh. Wait. Hold on." She held up the walkie talkie and talked into it, although she was looking the tealblood right in the eyes. "There's a spot between here and the museum to check out! No bases or anything. There's also some building there, but I haven't checked out yet." If she did decide to look it, hopefully it wouldn't be anything like that crypt...
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: N/A Result of Action: Discovered Aiguma Theater and Sparse Residencies!
Forera couldn't stop herself from giggling at Vulpin's face going orange. Seriously, he looked so mad-- it was just priceless. With a loud laugh Forera watched as his lusus did exactly what she said-- steal him away and run to the other area. Was that in the direction of the crypts? Rera didn't know. She'd go check it out later. After watching Luxy leave and come back with more intel, the tealblood decided to check out one of the new places they were at. Which was...
Huh. Was this a hive? It looked well maintained. She was totally going to steal something from here. Maybe. Most likely. Maybe she could ask Etsali to join her. That'd be fun, hehe. With a grin plastered on her face, the troll set down her tools and set to work on a base near the hive, not giving a s**t if it belonged to some weird a** purpleblood or whatever. When she was done, she almost forgot to radio in-- then she grabbed her radio and pressed the talk button.
"YoooOOOo!!" She yelled, unsure if they heard. "I built a new place in the theater place Luxy found. DID YOU HEAR THAT VULIPIN?!?! DID YOU?!?" She screamed, not particularly mad, just trying to get him to hear. "Aaah yeah!! If annnyyone wants to come help me ouutt! They could tooootally come over!!" She exclaimed, wiping her forehead.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: N/A Result of Action: Base built at Aiguma Theater [2,2] with durability of 4!
Etsali had a sneaking suspicion that she was missing something. She couldn't put her finger on what exactly, or else it wouldn't have been missing in the first place, but she knew it was there. It was, she thought, because she'd let the weird museum distract her so much. She'd been so set on boarding it up that it had taken her a long time to figure out where everyone else had gone. Momentarily forgetting the existence of her handy dandy walkie talkie, she just wandered back over towards the Fisherman's Market. She heard the racket from the Stadium long before she actually saw anyone, and was surprised to see that that someone was Vulpin being carried away by his lusus.
Blinking, she stopped to watch them go by. Sometimes Keeper did the exact same thing to her anytime she tried to jump into anything too dangerous. Was that what had happened? Was there a rebel attack? Had he found something really hard to steal? She was bursting with questions, but then he was gone before she managed to pick which she wanted to ask first. Soooo...! She'd ask Forera and Luxara! And then she'd see if she could handle whatever dangerous they'd found or if Keeper would drag her away too.
Course, by the time she'd reached them they were already running off to shiny new places! Man, this team stuff was hard to keep up with sometimes, huh? Oh well, she supposed it would help her get faster! The radio lit up soon enough with Forera's declaration of base built and she hurried onwards to catch up. "Oh, I'll help!" Then, blinking, she hit the button on the radio and tried it too. "I'LL HELP!" Giggling as she slowed to a stop outside the theater, she waved up at Forera. "See, already here!"
As she grabbed some boards and started fortifying what had already been built, she juggled her curiosity of what was in the theater and what Vulpin had been doing. One of them was easy, she just had to poke her head in and look! So the other won! "Hey, where'd Vulpin go? Did he find something shiny somewhere? Or run into a heavily guarded secret base? Orrrr, um," what else did Keeper freak out about, "did something try to fall on him?"
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: N/A Result of Action: Durability of Aiguma Theater +15!
Luxara was peeking about the theater quick as Forera and Etsali got to work. Over the radio she confirmed, "Doesn't seem to be anyone around here." Her job there was done for the time being. Strolling back, she was very pleased to see how well her team was doing.
In almost no time at all, they had a whole new, awesome base up! Wow! "Good job, guys! It's looking GREAT!" She jumped up and down enthusiastically. As her teammates were chumming it up, Luxara could hear some of the conversation. When Vulpin came up, she happily butted right in. "He was getting mad at For so his lusus dragged him away. I mean, I TRIED to apologize cuz he was mad at us but For yelled at him instead and so." She shrugged. "I haven't heard him on the radio yet even though he told us just how important that's supposed to be. Or something. I dunno. ...Hey! While you guys are doing that, I'll go see if I can get us some new friends!" That's what Vulpin had done before, right? Well, if HE was off who-knows-where, she could help pick up the slack! Maybe he'd be happy about not having to do so much, too! She was just SO helpful. Just ask her.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: 6 Result of Action: Rallying more defenders!
Vulpin heard all of their messages on the walkie talkie. He refused to respond until he had something to come back with. He couldn't come back empty handed. Well he didn't want to come back at all, frankly.
Vulpin activated his walkie-talkie. He let the static play for a few seconds before composing his thoughts into words. Okay Vulpin, he told himself, let's be a professional. He took a deep breath. "This is Vulpin Cadmea speaking, do you read?" Oh, he shouldn't have said it like that. One of them was bound to think he was talking about literacy. He rolled his eyes. "I have discovered and gathered an... interesting group of trolls to use as recruits in the take over of Old Hemisect City."
He looked over at the aforementioned recruits. They were a tough looking bunch but a little... slow. They could work with it. "Send the appropriate coordinates and they will come and find you. As for me, well you don't need to look for me." He smiled.
"I'm doing just fine on my own, I'll send you troops intermittently." He stood up from his spot in the dirt and waited for a response. This was probably the most intelligent way to stay out of the fighting, he supposed. And away from those girls.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: 6 + 7 = 13 Result of Action: Rallied 7 more defenders!
Oh good, Luxara had answers! Very puzzling answers. Etsali blinked at her and then gave a long, considering look at Forera's face. "It must've been some pretty fierce yelling if his lusus decided to take him away. People yell at me plenty, but most of the time Keeper just stares unless they try to attack!" She motioned at the large raccoon to demonstrate and, just like she said, now that the building was done Keeper was just sitting there, staring. Sometimes her little wings flapped, though, that was almost like moving. "So I bet there was something else too! Maybe you just didn't see it!"
As she nodded sagely at her own opinion, Luxara ran off to find more friends and Vulpin suddenly spoke to them through the radio! He'd found more friends too, and would send them, and said not to look for him because he was fine. That was probably code for 'I found something cool and want to keep it for myself', and that wasn't very team-spirited at all. If it was shiny, he had to share all of it so she could keep it! She turned a wide, playful grin on Forera, because she seemed like the sort to share opinions like these. "Bet I find him first~!"
And then she was off, racing back through the city in the direction she'd seen them going before. She nearly passed the crypts by, but then she'd noticed a sign and paused to peer at it. "No girls allowed?" Her eyes drifted to the bit of building that had been done to make it a base. Hmmmm. "I think we probably found him. And I have an idea to make him feel better!" Well, it would be fun for her anyway, now that she was getting the hang of building things.
"Let's build it up even better than he did!"
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Hemisect Crypt durability + 11
Oh no she DIDN'T!! When Forera heard that girls challenge she couldn't just stand by and watch! Forera immediately ran after Etsali, then broke away after a while searching for some other place that kid had wandered off to-- but then when she reunited with Etsali and they found that "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" sign, Forera almost gave away their position with a loud shriek of laughter. The crypt? Really?She couldn't help but let out a loud giggle, watching 'sali work away on his base, making it way better than the pathetic defense it had before. After Etsali finished, Forera pushed off from her seat then thought for a second.
"Oh my gosssh I know what will make this EVEN BETTER." She squealed, grabbing her tools and getting some materials-- "A fort around it!! That'd be the COOLEST THING. EVERR!!!" She exclaimed, and instantly started working on it excitedly.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Fortified Hemisect Crypt [3,4] for 7 durability!
Luxara was running around, pumped up after managing to make more friends to help them out! She stopped to rest quick in what might be some abandoned hive? Pretty dinky, but comfortable for the time being. At least it didn't smell. "Guys, I think I found some kinda shack." she called over the radio. "It's got a nice view of the beach! I like it. Moving out."
Once she was up and at 'em again, she passed through a few places unawares, stopping by a cluster of large buildings. Were these...hives? Oh BOY! "Guys, guys, guys! I found these GIGANTIC hives! They look kinda empty...maybe there are people living here, maybe, can't really tell, but... They're so ROOMY. I didn't even KNOW hives could be so BIG!" It made her treehive look like itty bitty! "No bases here, either. Kinda like the shack. Want me to get back to you guys? I could help you find your way out here if we want to get some bases up!"
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] [5,6] [2,5] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Discovered Beach Shack and Mansion Peaks!
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] [5,6] [2,5] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Base built at Mansion Peaks [2,5] with durability of 7!
Vulpin had been taking a nap in his base when he was rudely awakened by sounds of construction. He rushed to the window to see what was happening. He saw the orangeblood from his team, the one he hadn't met yet. She deserved the benefit of the doubt, he supposed, even if she didn't read his sign. He folded his arms and smirked.
Out of the corner of his eye he spotted something teal. It wasn't one of his recruits, so it had to be... NO. Vulpin ripped off the sign and threw it out the window. It landed in the dirt. He ducked down and covered his face with his poncho. He muffled his angry screams with it. What was he going to do? Sly looked at his charge with pleading eyes.
Vulpin had to save face. He had to... apologize. Though it was the last thing he ever wanted to do. Then again sorry was just a word, wasn't it? He didn't really have to be sorry, he just had to make them think he was sorry. Think of it as acting practice, he told himself. Vulpin smirked. He liked this plan.
He strutted up to the working girls, turning his attention to the tealblood first. He took one look at her, opened his mouth to speak, and immediately forgot what he planned to say. Sly nudged his hand in encouragement. "Forrrrera? Is that right?" He asked to get her attention. "I just wanted to say..." He stopped and scratched the back of his head, and looked out of the corner of his eyes instead of directly at her. "... That I'm sorry for yelling at your friend... and for trying to attack you." That was good enough right? He looked at his lusus, who seemed content.
He looked at the orangeblood. She had an interesting look, strange choice in clothes. But she hadn't done anything yet to get on his bad side. "I don't believe I've seen much of you, but thanks for fortifying my base." He gave her a large, fake smile. "Now, back to business. What needs work? Should we keep moving or build more where we are?" He asked the two.
As Etsali stood back to admire the work she and Forera had done to the crypt, a sign flew out the window and landed in the dirt below. The orangeblood blinked, wondering why that had happened, but soon enough here was the only boy of the team walking up to them. He'd come out to admire their work, she was sure, so she was only mildly confused when he began an apology to Forera instead. She glanced back and forth between them, considering, then frowned a little. So that probably meant there hadn't actually been anything else around to make the lusus take him away, didn't it? They'd just been breaking up a fight.
And then he was turning to her with a wide smile that she mimicked immediately. "It turned out pretty well, didn't it?" she boasted agreeably with a nod. "And yeah, I guess you missed me and Keeper when we got distracted with the museum. We'll be sure to stick to the group from now on!" Then she wouldn't miss all the interesting bits.And then, as he said, it was back to business! A good thing too, because Luxara had found them something new again! She was awfully good at that!
"Oh oh, I want to see the giant hives! Let's go there first!" They could build up the best bases in a place like that!
((I'll edit in more after Forera's post gets updated if need be!))
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] [5,6] [2,5] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Mansion peaks fortified by +14!
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 11:32 am
DAILY REFRESH!
It's a new day! The fighting in Old Hemisect has begun, but injuries are as of yet still low. There have not yet been any casualties, to the relief of many lusii and even Captain Mapuye herself. The Alternian Military is offering leniency for those rebels who will turn themselves over to the royalist side. Flyers and announcements promising "Grace for those who, deep down in their pump biscuits, wish the best for our great Alternian race."
Today's Happenstance: Royalists attacking rebel defenders may roll 1D4. The resulting number of defenders can be added to their standby. This effect can only be used once per coordinate attacked.
Each troll is refreshed and ready to go with 2 available actions.
It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an error printed in the rules! Please note that this error has been corrected, and to clarify:
You cannot mobilize defenders directly from your standby to assault an enemy base; they must be mobilized to a friendly base first. Thank you!
Refreshers: POSSIBLE ACTIONS ARE:
Build: Roll 1D6 to build on a coordinate that you have unlocked – the roll result determines the durability of the base. You can also build on friendly bases to add durability, up to a maximum of 30 durability. You cannot build on a coordinate that already has an enemy base on it. Trolls with training in Construction get a bonus to their roll: Apprentice: Roll 2D6 Journeytroll: Roll 3D6 Master: Roll 4D6 Grandmaster: Roll 5D6
Rally: Roll 1D6 to organize defenders, which can be assigned to any coordinate you have unlocked. The roll result determines the amount of defenders you have rallied. Defenders will be on stand-by until you mobilize them. Defenders are the second level of defense that can be assigned to protect a base. You must use defenders to take out defenders if you want to demolish an enemy base! Trolls with training in Recruiting get a bonus to their roll: Apprentice: Roll 2D6 Journeytroll: Roll 3D6 Master: Roll 4D6 Grandmaster: Roll 5D6 Demolish: Roll 1D6 to destroy a base on a coordinate that you have unlocked – the roll result determines the amount of damage done to the durability of the base. At 0 durability, the base is destroyed. You cannot demolish a base with defenders assigned to it. Trolls with training in Demolition get a bonus to their roll: Apprentice: Roll 2D6 Journeytroll: Roll 3D6 Master: Roll 4D6 Grandmaster: Roll 5D6
Intelligence: Roll a new coordinate (2D6). If you roll a coordinate you have already unlocked, the roll is wasted. Trolls with training in Intelligence get a bonus to their rolls: Apprentice: Roll 2 new coordinates (4D6) Journeytroll: Roll 2 new coordinates (4D6); if at least 1 of the coordinates is not unique, re-roll 2D6 until a new coordinate has been unlocked. Master: Journeytroll effect OR select one new coordinate from another team and unlock it. You must post with roleplay in your own thread and the other team’s thread for this to take effect. Grandmaster: Journeytroll effect OR Master effect OR… Roll 1 coordinate (2D6). If your allies control the coordinate rolled: add 5 durability and 5 defenders to that coordinate (may surpass the maximum durability/defender limit by 5). If your opponents control the coordinate rolled: it loses 5 durability and 5 recruits (does not apply if the numbers would decrease past 0). You additionally unlock the coordinate.
Mobilize: Choose one of two options: 1. Send defenders from your stand-by or a friendly-base you control to any friendly-base on a coordinate that you have unlocked. 2. Assault an enemy-controlled coordinate that you have unlocked using defenders from a friendly base. Defenders must be deployed to a base before they can assault an enemy base and cannot attack directly from your standby.
POST IN THE WAR ROOM THREAD IF:
You build a new base on a coordinate You reinforce a friendly base You assign defenders to a base You assault a base You do damage to a base You destroy a base You use the Grandmaster Intelligence perk to affect a base
The mansion hives they'd found had been super interesting, but Etsali guessed other trolls had already been through them a lot before because there wasn't much to pick up from within them. Still, they made for some cool bases! She'd have to come back and build on them even more later, but for now, hadn't Luxara said something about some other place? Letting the others know she was going to go check that out real quick, she set out to do just that. And then promptly built all over that little shack because bases.
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] [5,6] [2,5] Defenders on Standby: 13 Result of Action: Base built on Beach Shack [5,6] with 13 durability!
With a new night on their hands, Luxara started the evening with a great speech totally not ripped off from like Braveheart or something. It even won some people over to help out! Huzzah!
Group Progress: Coordinates Unlocked: [5,2] [1,2] [1,1] [3,2] [3,4] [2,2] [5,6] [2,5] Defenders on Standby: 13 + 4 Result of Action: Rallying troops!
